Category Archives: CRTC

Traffic Management on Mobile Gets Regulated

Shortly before Canada Day the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released their decision as to whether they were to modify the forbearance framework for mobile wireless data services. To date, the CRTC has used a light hand when it’s come to wireless data communications: they’ve generally left wireless providers alone so that the providers could expand their networks in the (supposedly) competitive wireless marketplace. As of decision 2010-445 the Commission’s power and duties are extended and the spectre of traffic management on mobile networks is re-raised. Continue reading

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Choosing Winners with Deep Packet Inspection

Citizens along with government and business, as opposed to business and deep packet inspection alone, must be responsible for choosing the ‘winning’ applications for the Internet. Continue reading

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Deep Packet Inspection and Mobile Discrimination

If last year was the year of wireline network management/neutrality in Canada, we might get lucky and see this one as the transition year that leads to a public discussion about Canadian telecommunications companies’ wireless network management/neutrality practices, with discrimination as the focal topic. Continue reading

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Crown, Copyright, and the CRTC

I’m in the middle of a large project (for one person), and as part of it I wanted to host some CRTC documents on the project’s web server to link into. You see, if you’ve ever been involved in one … Continue reading

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